Chicano Art

By csalazar81
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    Chicano Art Movement

    The Chicano Art movement (1960s-) was a movement largely centered around Mexican-Americans securing their rights and claiming their identities as a Chicano person.
  • Malaquias Montoya, George Jackson Lives, 1976, offset lithograph on paper, 23.5 x 18 in, Smithsonian American Art Museum

    Malaquias Montoya, George Jackson Lives, 1976, offset lithograph on paper, 23.5 x 18 in, Smithsonian American Art Museum

    Montoya's George Jackson Lives (1976) aims to bring out the injustice that was carried with George Jackson's murder. He was a political prisoner who was killed while in jail for being "too powerful" by spreading his "dangerous attitude" to other prisoners.